“we’re not used to seeing in a woman”: Kevin Sessums, “Love Child,” Vanity Fair, June 1995, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1995/06/courtney-love-199506.
“How many drug-addled rock stars”: Kim France, “The New Courtney,” Slate, April 13, 1997, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/1997/04/the_new_courtney.html.
“notoriously vengeful”: “Spin’s New Spin on Courtney Cover,” New York Post, October 18, 1998.
“She felt like I had some beef against her”: Tabitha Soren, interview with the author, April 2015.
“She lets herself go there”: Brett Morgen, interview with the author, 2015.
“I can’t compare it to rape”: Kim France, “Feminism Amplified,” New York, June 3, 1996, https://books.google.com/books?id=1eICAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34&dq=kim+france +feminism+rocks&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCkQ6AEwA2oVCh MIq7Pltv_TxwIVyFg-Ch1axwqA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
readers called her a “vile hag”: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, directed by Morgen.
“his talent and his wounded sweetness”: Michael O’Sullivan, “Documentary: Love Hurts,” Washington Post, July 17, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/kurtandcourtneyosullivan.htm.
“three inches taller than he was”: Charles R. Cross, “The Moment Kurt Cobain Met Courtney Love,” Daily Beast, April 5, 2014, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/04/the-moment-kurt-cobain-met-courtney-love.html.
She still contends with: Heather Saul, “Courtney Love’s Moving Tribute to Kurt Cobain on Instagram Hit by Abusive Comments,” The Independent, August 25, 2015, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/courtney-loves-moving-tribute-to-kurt-cobain-on-instagram-hit-by-abusive-com ments-10470453.html.
“denigration of the anthem”: Barry M. Horstman, “The Boos Swell: Roseanne in Rockets’ Red Glare,” Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1990.
Condemnations included: Russell Baker, “We Need a Star-Spangled Singing Test,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, August 4, 1990, https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=1990 0804&id=CLseAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vXoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=32 56,4271867&hl=en.
Opera star Robert Merrill: Horstman, “The Boos Swell.”
“bossy, and less effective than male counterparts”: Jillian Kramer, “Female Leaders Who Behave Like Men Are Seen as Bossy,” Glamour.com, December 6, 2016, https://www.glamour.com/story/female-leaders-who-behave-like-men-are-seen-as-bossy.
When the show hit number one: Roseanne Barr, “And I Should Know,” New York, May 2011, http://nymag.com/arts/tv/upfronts/2011/roseanne-barr-2011-5/index2.html.
“Rage is Roseanne’s ozone”: Iley, “Fierce Creature.”
detractors dubbed her: Plotz, “Domestic Goddess Dethroned.”
“Women still take her more seriously”: Eric Weinrib, conversation with the author at Tribeca Film Festival 2015.
“Did you actually get to say something nice”: “Nirvana-Short Interview + MTV 1994 Year in Rock Report-12/23/94,” MTV, YouTube video, 7:00, posted by NirvanaForevermore, April 5, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAX23jf2seU.
“Courtney was interested in the canon”: Kim France, interview with the author, September 2, 2015.
“contain her huge appetites”: Merkin, “Endless Love.”
“too mammoth to be confined to a genre”: Murphy, “‘I’m Sorry—I’m Not Really Sorry.’”
“the kind of ambition”: France, “Feminism Amplified.”
“Love’s vilification as a bitch”: Murphy, “‘I’m Sorry—I’m Not Really Sorry.’”
“She knew far more”: Cross, “The Moment Kurt Cobain Met Courtney Love.”
“It seems a pity that Love”: Merkin, “Endless Love.”
“whitewash her tarnished image”: O’Sullivan, “Documentary: Love Hurts.”
“I thought, like Madonna”: Nancy Jo Sales, “Love in a Cold Climate,” Vanity Fair, November 2011, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/11/courtney-love-201111.
“When you say ‘rock star’”: Adam Diehl, interview with the author, May 2016.
CHAPTER 9: DAMAGED GOODS
in one 2005 study, 15 percent: A. Laye-Gindhu and K. A. Schonert-Reichl, “Nonsuicidal Self-Harm Among Community Adolescents: Understanding the ‘Whats’ and ‘Whys’ of Self-Harm,” Journal of Youth and Adolescents 34, no. 5 (2005): 447–57, doi:10.1007/s0964-005-7262-z.
Boys were more likely to: Patrick L. Kerr, Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp, and James M. Turner, “Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: A Review of Current Research for Family Medicine and Primary Care Physicians,” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 23, no. 2 (March–April 2010): 240–259, doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2010.02.090110.
never treated a girl who cut herself: Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (New York: River-head Books, 1994), 157.
“Self-mutilation may well be a reaction”: Pipher, Reviving Ophelia, 157.
nearly 17 percent of girls: David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, and Karen E. Norberg, “Explaining the Rise in Youth Suicide,” in Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis, ed. Jonathan Gruber (University of Chicago Press, 2001), 219–270, http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10690.pdf.
wrote about cutting herself: Atoosa Rubenstein, “Sad Dad Could Be Depressed,” Desert News, August 14, 2006.
“the new bulimia”: Linda Holler, Erotic Morality: The Role of Touch in Moral (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002).
she admitted to cutting: Michelle Green, “True Confessions,” People, December 4, 1995, http://people.com/archive/cover-story-true-confessions-vol-44-no-23/.
“Self-injury can be understood”: Natasha Alexander and Linda Clare, “You Still Feel Different: The Experience and Meaning of Women’s Self-Injury in the Context of a Lesbian or Bisexual Identity,” Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 14, no. 2 (March–April 2004): 70–84.
“heroin-chic”: Christine L. Harold, “Tracking Heroin Chic: The Abject Body Reconfigures the Rational Argument,” Argumentation and Advocacy 36, no. 2 (Fall 1999): 65–76, http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ592792.
“like an underfed Calvin Klein model”: Sasha Frere-Jones, “Extraordinary Measures,” New Yorker, October 10, 2005, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/extraordinary-measures.
“Kate Moss with songs”: Richard Harrington, “Fiona Apple: The Time Is Ripe,” Washington Post, November 28, 1999, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/28/003r-112899-idx.html.
“teenager’s sense of drama”: Frere-Jones, “Extraordinary Measures.”
“Apple has often seemed”: Dave Tianan, “Review: Apple sings from a core of emotion,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 13, 2006.
Time named the video: Katy Steinmetz, “Top 10 Controversial Music Videos: ‘Criminal,’” Time, June 6, 2011, http://entertain ment.time.com/2011/06/07/top-10-controversial-music-videos/.
“overtones of child porn”: Ben Williams, “A World-Class Drama Queen,” New York, October 10, 2005, http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/music/pop/14612/.
“a self-obsessed drama queen”: Harrington, “Fiona Apple: The Time Is Ripe.”
“a tsunami of adolescent feelings”: Harrington, “Fiona Apple: The Time is Ripe.”
“might lead one to believe”: Chris Heath, “Fiona: The Caged Bird Sings,” Rolling Stone, January 22, 1998, http://www.rolling stone.com/music/news/fiona-the-caged-bird-sings-19980122.
“For me, it wasn’t about getting thin”: Heath, “Fiona: The Caged Bird Sings.”
“They kept saying she hurt her thigh”: Kathy O’Hearn, interview with the author, October 2015.
seven hundred fifty million people: “More Information About: Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer’s Wedding,” BBC, accessed November 6, 2017, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/prince_charles_and_lady_diana_spencers_wedding.
“modified bowl haircut”: Warren Hoge, “Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, Dies in a Crash in Paris,” New York Times, August 31, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/31/world/europe/diana-obit.html.
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nbsp; “always pitched out front”: “Princess Diana Interview Part 2,” Panorama, BBC, YouTube video, aired November 1995, 9:54, posted by CAMELOTHSPENCER, October 22, 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlxs_JG1dDA.
“adored fancy clothes”: Sarah Lyall, “Charles and Diana Agree on Divorce Terms,” New York Times, July 13, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/13/world/charles-and-diana-agree-on-divorce-terms.html?pagewanted=all.
“thick as a plank”: “Princess Di Admits to Being ‘Thick as a Plank,’” Ocala Star-Banner, January 21, 1987, https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19870121&id=V8BPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sgYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5271,2024739&hl=en.
He charged that the royal family: Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 85.
“the cause of the marriage problems”: Morton, Diana, 73.
bulimia rates tripled: Laura Currin, Ulrike Schmidt, Janet Treasure, and Herschel Jick, “Time Trends in Eating Disorder Incidence,” British Journal of Psychiatry 186, no. 2 (January 2005): 132–135, http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/186/2/132.
Charles and Diana were immersed: Hoge, “Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, Dies in a Crash in Paris.”
Diana “posed knowingly on Mediterranean holidays”: Hoge, “Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, Dies in a Crash in Paris.”
“I never know where a lens is going to be”: “Princess Diana Interview Part 2,” Panorama.
“paranoid and foolish”: Morton, Diana, 21.
“Vengeance is a dish best served cold”: Nicholas Wapshott, “Diana: Hunted or Huntress?” Newsweek, October 31, 2013, http://www.newsweek.com/2013/11/01/diana-hunted-or-hunt ress-243882.html.
men, who comprised more than half of journalists: Anna Griffin, “Where Are the Women?” Nieman Reports, September 11, 2015.
CHAPTER 10: VICTIMS AND VIOLENCE
“cajole, demand, infiltrate”: Harry F. Waters, “Whip Me, Beat Me . . . and give me great ratings. A network obsession with women in danger,” Newsweek, November 11, 1991.
“faces the loss of her practice”: Waters, “Whip Me, Beat Me.”
250 made-for-TV movies in the 1992 season: Waters, “Whip Me, Beat Me.”
“Somewhere in America”: Mark Harris, “Mad Women on TV,” Entertainment Weekly, April 24, 1992, http://ew.com/article/1992/04/24/mad-women-tv/.
“the first thing many say is”: Waters, “Whip Me, Beat Me.”
“Women are being beaten”: Mike Duffy, “Women, TV and Ultraviolence: Women Are the Victims, Stars and Consumers of Increasingly Gory Shows,” Detroit Free Press, October 4, 2005.
“It does seem like there’s a shocking amount”: Molly Willow, “Vivid Violence: More TV Shows Using Grisly Crimes against Women to Draw Audiences,” Columbus Dispatch, November 8, 2005.
“When I have these meetings”: Deborah Hastings, “Lifetime’s ‘Attitudes’ Tackles Feminism,” Associated Press, April 21, 1992.
“I don’t get it. It’s two bitches in a car”: Becky Aikman, Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge (New York: Penguin Publishing Group, 2017), 3–4.
“leads to increased acceptance of rape”: Mike Feinsilber, “Psychologists: TV Ignores, Distorts Lives of Most People,” Associated Press, February 25, 1992.
“We look to the audience”: Willow, “Vivid Violence.”
“teen girl psychopath”: Diana Jean Schemo, “Hidden and Haunted behind the Headlines,” New York Times, June 12, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/12/nyregion/hidden-haunted-behind-headlines-parents-accused-long-island-teen-ager-are.html?pagewanted=all.
“Fatal Attraction . . . teenage style”: Joe Treen, “Treachery in the Suburbs,” People, June 29, 1992, http://people.com/archive/treachery-in-the-suburbs-vol-37-no-25/.
for $8,000: Richard Cohen, “The Name of De Rosa,” Washington Post, August 30, 1992, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1992/08/30/the-name-of-de-rosa/0f846f1c-3614-409f-8dab-225943c213bd/?utm_term=.a8e5ad3a5a99.
“wore cutoff jeans”: “‘The Long Island Lolita,’” Newsweek, June 14, 1992, http://www.newsweek.com/long-island-lolita-199280.
“vilified in print as a venal, spoiled little bitch”: Steve Duleavy, “Lolita’s Dad Begs Forgiveness for His Girl,” New York Post, February 3, 1999, http://nypost.com/1999/02/03/lolitas-dad-begs-forgiveness-for-his-girl-amys-dad-pleads-for-forgiveness-exclusive/.
“shrewd, manipulative, and brazen”: Diana Jean Schemo, “Not-Guilty Plea Entered by Teen-Ager in Shooting,” New York Times, June 3, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/03/nyregion/not-guilty-plea-entered-by-teen-ager-in-shooting.html.
“old enough to be her father”: William A. Henry, “Read All About Lolita!” Time, June 15, 1992, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975772,00.html.
“To call her a seventeen-year-old girl”: Schemo, “Not-Guilty Plea Entered by Teen-Ager in Shooting.”
nearly seven years: John T. McQuiston, “Amy Fisher Is Released After Almost 7 Years in Prison,” New York Times, May 11, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/11/nyregion/amy-fisher-is-released-after-almost-7-years-in-prison.html.
severe depression and attempted suicide twice: Joe Treen, “Sex, Lies, and Videotapes,” People, October 12, 1992, http://people.com/archive/cover-story-sex-lies-videotapes-vol-38-no-15/.
“So here I was, on the brink of sweet sixteen”: “Amy Fisher Tells of Sex Abuse,” Orlando Sentinel, April 4, 1993, http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-04-04/news/9304 040004_1_amy-fisher-joey-buttafuoco-abortion.
“He’s going to say whatever he needs to”: Lesléa Newman, interview with the author, July 2015.
“If you become a teenage prostitute”: John O’Connor, “Critic’s Notebook; The Line Between Dramas And Lies,” New York Times, December 31, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/31/arts/critic-s-notebook-the-line-between-dramas-and-lies.html.
“a $180-a-night prostitute”: Treen, “Treachery in the Suburbs.”
Amy Fisher Bang for Your Bucks: “In Living Color-Jim Carrey does Joey Buttafuoco, Amy Fisher bang for you bucks seminar,” In Living Color, Fox, YouTube video, 2:47, posted by vinnyqua, December 12, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW6NbI6dSx0.
roughly triple the amount Fisher did: Diane Ketcham, “About Long Island; 3 TV Films, 3 Versions of Amy Fisher Case,” New York Times, December 6, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/06/nyregion/about-long-island-3-tv-films-3-versions-of-amy-fisher-case.html?pagewanted=all.
“chastened hussy”: Dan Barry, “The Nation: No Way Out; Still Gawking After All These Years,” New York Times, May 16, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/16/weekinreview/the-nation-no-way-out-still-gawking-after-all-these-years.html.
“classy tear-away underwear”: “Saturday Night Live: Amy Fisher,” Saturday Night Live, NBC, Hulu video, 2:07, http://www.hulu.com/watch/270886.
A 2008 report compiled by the Department of Justice: Margaret A. Zahn et al., “Violence by Teenage Girls: Trends and Context,” US Department of Justice, May 2008, https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/218905.pdf.
girls were more likely to perpetrate: T. M. Franke, A. L. T. Huynh-Hohnbaum, and Y. Chung, “Adolescent Violence: With Whom They Fight and Where,” Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work 11, no. 3–4 (2002).
A 1997 study: S. Artz, “On Becoming an Object,” Journal of Child and Youth Care 11, no. 2 (1997): 17–37.
gave away cocktail wienies and Slice soda: Melissa Jeltson, “Lorena Bobbitt Is Done Being Your Punchline,” Huffington Post, December 22, 2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lorena-bobbitt-domestic-violence_us_585ab844e4b0eb58648 4cea9.
“cut heard round the world”: “The Cut Heard Round The World,” Newsweek, October 17, 1993, http://www.newsweek.com/cut-heard-round-world-194218.
“a wake-up call”: Robin Abcarian, “Let’s Not Make Lorena Bobbitt a Feminist Poster Child,” Los Angeles Times, December 5, 1993, http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-05/news/vw-64250_1_lorena-bobbitt.
County police had
answered domestic violence calls: Lorena Bobbitt, “Lorena Bobbitt ’93 Exclusive: Part 1,” ABC News video, December 5, 1993, accessed September 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/lorena-bobbitt-93-exclusive-scared-11747248.
her 2003 report: Elizabeth K. Carll, “Violence and Women: News Coverage of Victims and Perpetrators,” American Behavioral Scientist, August 1, 2003, http://docplayer.net/24734748-Violence-and-women-news-coverage-of-victims-and-perpetrators.html.
“You do not have the right to kill or maim someone”: “No Tears for Lorena,” Newsweek, January 23, 1994, http://www.newsweek.com/no-tears-lorena-187404.
“a symbol of female rage”: Abcarian, “Let’s Not Make Lorena Bobbitt a Feminist Poster Child.”
“If . . . she had killed him instead”: Lorena Bobbitt, “Lorena Bobbitt ’93 Exclusive: Part 2,” ABC News video, December 5, 1993, http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/lorena-bobbitt-93-exclusive-part-11747291.
“Her abuse of him was so barbaric”: Abcarian, “Let’s Not Make Lorena Bobbitt a Feminist Poster Child.”
National Lampoon’s twenty-fifth anniversary: Jonathan Taylor, “He Never Gave Me Orgasm: The Lenora Babbitt Story,” Variety, August 19, 1994, http://variety.com/1994/film/reviews/he-never-give-me-orgasm-the-lenora-babbitt-story-1200438184/.
“vindictive and said”: Michael Ross, “Lorena Bobbitt’s Trial for Cutting Penis Begins,” Los Angeles Times, January 11, 1994, http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-11/news/mn-10704_1_lorena-bobbitt.
“instant feminist pin-up girl”: Mona Charen, “Lorena Bobbitt, America’s Feminist Pin-Up,” Baltimore Sun, November 15, 1993, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-11-15/news/1993 319151_1_lorena-bobbitt-john-bobbitt-spinning-the-story.
“every woman’s fantasy”: Charen, “Lorena Bobbitt, America’s Feminist Pin-Up.”
“The female criminal violates two laws”: Katherine Dunn, “Just as Fierce,” Mother Jones, November/December 1994.
“zipped around Brentwood”: “Nicole Brown Simpson,” Biography.com, last updated February 11, 2016, http://www.biography.com/people/nicole-brown-simpson-21254807.
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